Do
you ever get the feeling that your life spins out of control? Your kids
run wild? Your spouse doesn’t live up to your expectations? Why
won’t the world work in a way you feel appropriate?

For the past 30
years, many things grew worse in the United States. You watch it daily
with unemployment rates, bailouts, federal debt and a dozen other ‘predicaments’
bearing down on our country.

Notice that President
Obama expects to pass an amnesty this year! Notice that he resembles
a six foot tall man who cannot swim but jumps into the 12 foot deep
end of a swimming pool with no lifeguards.

He needs some help
because he and the U.S. Congress stand nostril-deep in water. I suggest
they follow the wise council of the following book: The Immigration
Solution: A Better Plan Than Today’s By Heather MacDonald, Victor
Davis Hanson, Steven Malanga, Ivan R. Dee, 2007

In the summer 2008
issue of The Social Contract Quarterly, page 287, 288, veteran journalist
out of Chicago, Dave Gorak enlightens the public to the solutions provided
in the book.

“This collection
of essays by Heather MacDonald, Victor Davis Hanson, and Steven Malanga,
which originally appeared in the quarterly City Journal during 2002?2007,
belongs on the bookshelves of everyone seriously concernned about this
nation’s worsening immigration crisis,” said Gorak. “Using
plenty of statistics ? but not so many as to make one’s eyes glaze
ovver ? the authors leave no doubt in the reader’s mind that our
present immigration policy has become a nightmare that won’t end
until our politicians begin to take seriously the public’s growing
disgust with mass immigration. The people we’ve been sending to
Washington to represent our interests are more concerned with kissing
up to the Mexican government and not offending Hispanics than they are
with fulfilling their responsibilities to their constituents, a majority
of whom continue to tell them they have had it with large numbers of
foreigners ? more than half of them from Mexico ? pouring into this
country.

“These immigrants,
while like previous newcomers in certain respects, are in fact dramatically
different because they have the luxury of a welfare safety net to prop
them up if they fail to achieve their version of a better life. This
luxury wasn’t available to many of the 24 million immigrants who
came here during the 1880?1924 “Great Wave” but returned
to ttheir own countries during economic downturns. Malanga writes, for
example, that almost 60 percent of foreigners in this country during
the Great Depression packed up and left.”

That welfare safety
net costs U.S. taxpayers, according to the Edwin Rubenstein Report of
2008, a whopping $346 billion annually across 15 federal agencies.

“In short,
immigrants in the past arrived willing to risk all for the opportunity
to better themselves; today’s arrivals come with a sense of entitlement
because of the services now available to them, including “free”
education and health care and (in certain states) driver’s licenses
and in-state tuition rates,” said Gorak. “Our government’s
willingness to spare no effort to coddle Hispanics, which includes refusing
to enforce its own immigration laws, has done much to shatter the unity
and quality of life in many communities, including Selma, Calif., Hanson’s
own hometown. What’s taken place in Selma during the past 50 years
led to Hanson’s celebrated work, Mexifornia.

“Hanson writes
that since illegal immigration became a flood in the quiet valley in
which he lives, five drivers have driven into his vineyard causing thousands
of dollars in damage. “Our farmhouse in the Central Valley has
been broken into three times. We used to have an open yard; now it is
walled, with steel gates on the driveway.”

Los Angeles mirrors
the Mexican invasion with drug gangs numbering in the thousands. Neighboring
states like Arizona suffer 57,000 stolen cars annually. Unlawful immigrants
shop lifting in the millions of dollars. Daily, shoplifters steal $35
million across the USA.

“Most notably,
the authors say, the majority of today’s immigrants are poorly
educated and unskilled and contribute nothing to an economy that’s
increasingly knowledge driven,” said Gorak. “As a result,
they remain in low-paying service sector jobs that are a dead-end street
for them and their descendants. Europeans during the last century, however,
brought with them important skills needed in a growing young country
that offered the potential for personal advancement.

“This lack
of upward mobility in the Hispanic community, MacDonald writes, is helping
to fuel crime rates and increased membership in gangs that have grown
more organized and violent.

“All three
writers agree that the assimilation process that worked so well in the
past is virtually nonexistent among Hispanics, who also bring with them
negative attitudes toward education and the English language. Thanks
to multiculturalists and our own government, Hispanics are encouraged
to retain their own culture at the same time our schools are teaching
them that their new country has much to be ashamed of.

“What can
be done to deal with the problems associated with today’s laughable
and dangerous immigration policy?” asked Gorak. Malanga offers
this two-part solution:

First, this country
has to wise up and follow the examples of countries like Canada, Ireland,
and Australia that have de-emphasized the outdated idea of family reunification
in favor of admitting those immigrants with skills beneficial to their
respective economies. Second, the U.S. must also turn off the welfare
magnet.

Malanga argues
that we must adopt the recommendations calling for reduced levels of
immigration and protection for American workers made by the Jordan Commission
during the mid 1990s, recommendations that were ignored “when
political opposition arose from an unusual alliance of business interests,
open-borders ideologues, ethnic and racial activists, and Mexican politicians.”

“It is this
last group of those bent on impeding all efforts to control immigration,
says MacDonald, that is particularly worrisome,” said Gorak. “Quick
to defend its own sovereignty, Mexico on a daily basis is meddling in
this country’s affairs. From publishing a “survival guide”
for those planning to violate our borders to pressuring local communities
to accept its matricula consular as a valid form of ID (a de facto amnesty),
the Mexican government has become more determined to control American
immigration policy.”

“The Mexican
government will push to control as much U.S. immigration policy as it
can get away with,” MacDonald says, “but the Bush administration,
[and now the Obama presidency], simply winks at foreign attacks on immigration
laws that it itself refuses to enforce.”

Gorak said, “Mexico’s
increasingly aggressive meddling in this country, seeking to influence
school boards and even local elections, is nothing new, according to
Hanson, who says this country’s desire to “maintain cordial
relations” with Mexico overlooks the fact that “no government
in the last fifty years has been more hostile. Mexico’s policy
for a half-century has been the deliberate and illegal export of millions
of its poorest citizens to the United States, which is expected to educate,
employ, and protect them in ways not possible at home.”

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Americans must
push for a 10 year moratorium on all immigration. After the time-out,
a maximum of 100,000 annually allowed into the USA! Other countries
must become responsible for their birth rates, education and citizens.
And, those citizens of Mexico must be accountable for their actions
and their country.

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Frosty
Wooldridge possesses a unique view of the world, cultures and families
in that he has bicycled around the globe 100,000 miles, on six continents
and six times across the United States in the past 30 years. His published
books include: "HANDBOOK FOR TOURING BICYCLISTS" ; “STRIKE THREE! TAKE
YOUR BASE”; “IMMIGRATION’S UNARMED INVASION: DEADLY CONSEQUENCES”; “MOTORCYCLE
ADVENTURE TO ALASKA: INTO THE WIND—A TEEN NOVEL”; “BICYCLING AROUND THE
WORLD: TIRE TRACKS FOR YOUR IMAGINATION”; “AN EXTREME ENCOUNTER: ANTARCTICA.”
His next book: “TILTING THE STATUE OF LIBERTY INTO A SWAMP.” He lives
in Denver, Colorado.